A problem of Cayley from 1857 and how he could have solved it

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2005.09.003zbMATH Open1080.05098OpenAlexW1990423831MaRDI QIDQ2575012FDOQ2575012

Joel A. Stein, Gian-Carlo Rota

Publication date: 5 December 2005

Published in: Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2005.09.003

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zbMATH Keywords

factorizationHopf algebraspolynomialssymmetric functionsbialgebrascoalgebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Polynomials, factorization in commutative rings (13P05)

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• Ideaux resultants
• Plethystic Hopf algebras.
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• Plethystic algebras and vector symmetric functions.
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• Symmetry-based approach to the problem of a perfect cuboid
• Milne's volume function and vector symmetric polynomials
• Cayley continuants

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